We performed a comparison between Flatcar Container Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Canonical, Oracle and others in Operating Systems (OS) for Business."Flatcar's support is good. The version I am using is stable and allows us to make needed changes."
"The biggest thing that I have found valuable is stability."
"The most valuable feature is the Identity Management. You pay almost the same subscription cost for normal RHEL and you get the central Identity Management. You would need to pay much more if you were using other applications or products like Active Directory from Microsoft."
"The graphical user interface is useful. However, we prefer to use the command line as we can do many more things."
"Automation is the most valuable feature. I don't like having to solve a problem more than once. If I can just whip up some code to take care of deploying something, responding to something, etc., then that is what I prefer. It is a lot easier out-of-the-box to do than it is with Windows. With Windows, there is always the process of bootstrapping into being able to have the automation framework available, then making the automation framework work."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable features are the Podman and a lot of packages that come inbuilt as part of the regular package."
"While using it, we encountered far fewer complexities, and the entire process is much smoother and streamlined."
"I like most of the features. I like its stability. I like its views. It provides a very stable environment."
"One of the valuable features is that it's convenient."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"Their support needs improvement. It should be faster for priority tickets."
"Some of the repositories and some of the DNS versions are very old. I just deployed something using Ruby and the DNS stable repository was sufficiently old that the Ruby project I was using didn't work."
"Network management can be easier. It is getting more complex."
"If they can make the integration with Ansible easier, that would be ideal."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's patching process needs improvement, particularly in achieving consistency. Currently, when you patch, you might not have control over the timing, leading to different software packages ending up at different patch levels. This lack of consistency can make it challenging to manage and control the various components effectively."
"Support for older versions of the operating system could be improved. If people can't afford to upgrade, or if they have servers that are outdated, they need to be able to provide back-field support for those."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"At times, language is a barrier when it comes to support."
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Flatcar Container Linux is ranked 14th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews. Flatcar Container Linux is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Flatcar Container Linux writes "The solution is stable and allows us to make needed changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". Flatcar Container Linux is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Amazon FreeRTOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10 and Kali Linux.
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